[Python] How to tell pylance to correctly read identifiers loaded by their full module name?

I have a file that depends on a tool from another directory. The structure is:

• my_subproject
  • util
    • __init__.py
    • my_tool.py
  • __init__.py
  • my_main_file.py

my_tool.py may contain something like:

class MyTool:
pass


In the main file, I import it by:

import my_subproject.util.my_tool

my_tool_instance = my_subproject.util.my_tool.MyTool()



This works fine when ran in python, but I suspect there are path configurations I am not aware of. I am trying to get it to work in the IDE as well.

Right now, it says:

"my_tool" is not a known attribute of module "my_subproject.my_util"
​

In the VS Code settings for pylance, I have this:

"python.autoComplete.extraPaths": [
"my_subproject"
],
"python.analysis.include": ["my_subproject/**"],

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